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Firefighters received a report of a fire in the cell on the second floor of the building around two in the afternoon.
Rescuers wearing gas masks were informed that there was a lot of smoke in the room, 15 minutes said Džiuginta Vaitkevičienė, spokesman for the Kaunas Fire and Rescue Board.
Erik Ovcharenko / 15 min photo / Pravieniškės Correctional Center
The fire broke out in Sector 3 Zone 3.
2:17 pm Firefighters and rescuers were allowed in. A burned mattress in the convict cell.
2:40 pm the mattress, which had previously been tried to turn off by the prison officials themselves, was taken outside and turned off.
It turned out that 15 square kilometers. During the fire, a metal bed burned in an m-size cell, the lamp covers melted and part of the wall and ceiling decoration melted and smoked, a prisoner inhaled the smoke, but his doctors did not they took him to the medical institution. .
Three firefighters worked at the scene, using about 200 liters of water to extinguish the fire.
Vice Minister: There is no rebellion
The Deputy Minister of Justice, E Jablonsk, assures that it was a single incident, there were no major riots.
“I want to reassure the public, there is definitely no prisoner rebellion. It is the problem of an imprisoned person who is aggressive enough and prone to such crimes. He was recently transferred from a prison and, expressing his protest, outrage, started a fire in the cell, burning a blanket. He gained more smoke. He already did the same in another prison. ” 15 minutes said E.Jablonskas.
Photo by Laima Penek / Deputy Minister of Justice Elanas Jablonskas
According to him, the convict was neutralized, separated from everyone, no one was injured during the fire, all the prisoners continue to serve their sentences safely.
In the cell where the fire broke out, the convict was imprisoned alone. During the investigation, according to E. Jablonskas, an answer will be given to the way in which the convicted person could start a fire, the objective will be to prevent this from happening again.
“However, it is the destruction of property in a universally dangerous way: arson. The man will have to answer for that. It was a kind of expression of his protest,” said the Deputy Minister of Justice.
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